The Sting Tapestries
Description: The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Description: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, who uses the stage name Sting, is an English musician, actor, and activist. From 1977 to 1986, he was the bassist, frontman, and primary songwriter for the rock band The Police. In 1985, he went solo, incorporating elements of jazz, reggae, classical, rock, new-age, and worldbeat into his music. Sting is also a humanitarian and activist who has been involved with Amnesty International since 1981.
Description: The Chicago Sting (1974–1988) was an American professional soccer team representing Chicago. The Sting played in the North American Soccer League from 1975 to 1984 and in the Major Indoor Soccer League in the 1982–83 season and again from 1984 to 1988. They were North American Soccer League champions in 1981 and 1984, one of only two NASL teams (the New York Cosmos) to win the championship twice. The team was named in reference to the popular 1973 film, The Sting, whose action was set in Chicago of the 1930s.
